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German-Americans are America’s largest single ethnic group (if you divide Hispanics into Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, etc). In 2013, according to the Census bureau, 46m Americans claimed German ancestry: more than the number who traced their roots to Ireland (33m) or England (25m). In whole swathes of the...

In 1958, the German air force, or Luftwaffe, began training its pilots in the US due in part to the wide open spaces and the close cooperation with the US military. The Luftwaffe trained at a few different bases over the years before settling at the...

Between the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and the Detroit Auto Show, all evidence points to 2015 being the year of the self-driving car. BMW, Audi, and Volkswagen have all taken great strides in recent weeks to promote their brand of self-driving technology, some of...